CRIMINAL LAWS

Knowledge of Constitution and criminal laws

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Knowledge of Constitution and criminal laws

Introduction

Criminal law includes, in the legal system of a country those legal standards, prohibited by certain acts and with a penalty as a sanction to be linked. As a target, of criminal law is primarily the protection of certain legal rights such as life and property, security and integrity of the state and elementary values of community life. Possible punishments that are not practiced in all countries, including the fine, the imprisonment, and the corporal punishment as well as the most serious form of capital punishment (Alexander, 1998). Criminal law in most countries is in the form of a separate criminal code and, where appropriate, other subsidiary laws defined. Part of the criminal law in particular legal principles by which the criminal acts and their characteristics, type and severity of associated penalties and set out for the enforcement of criminal law, competent institutions and their functioning (Hobbes, 2008). With regard to these aspects, the allowable penalties, the assessment of punitive purpose, nature and scope of the underlying legal principles and the classification of criminal law in the legal system there are some substantial differences between the legal systems of individual countries that are the subject of comparative law are. Criminal law is the branch of law that establishes and regulates the punishment of crimes or offenses, through the imposition of certain penalties (such as confinement in prison, for example).

Discussion

Criminal law is the set of legal rules governing the punitive power of the state, involving facts, strictly defined by law, such as budget, a sentence, security measure or correction as a result, in order to ensure the basic values on which human society rests peacefully. When it comes to law uses the term criminal with different meanings, according to what one want to link, so it can be mentioned as preliminary classification as substantive criminal law, and on the other hand, the adjective or criminal law criminal procedure (Rousseau, 1997). The first consists of what is generally known as the penal code and laws criminal background, which are the rules promulgated by the State, establishing crimes and penalties, while the criminal, procedural law is the set of rules designed to establish the mode of application of those.

Criminal law is not confined only to the list of behaviors considered offenses and the punishment that each corresponding but basically its mission is to protect society. This is accomplished through measures, on the one hand lead to the separation of the offender dangerous because of the time; at the same time, he rejoins the social environment for those who are not using the appropriate treatment in each case to achieve this purpose.

Crime

Delinquency refers to a set of acts against the law, established by law and deserving of punishment by society, to varying degrees. It could also be defined as conduct by a person or persons that do not match those required in a given society, which violates the laws of ...